The beginning of the new year in 1885

According to the clear instructions of the Red Fort, Queensland once again increased its overall control over Lanfangguo, and transferred 1,500 fresh graduates from the Eagle School, 100 fresh graduates from the Red River Valley University, and 61 staff members from various grassroots towns and villages who had performed well after years of work and training to Lanfangguo, so as to build a complete administrative and public security operation structure for Lanfangguo, and all rules were in accordance with the trip to Queensland.

Regular routes from Brisbane, Tianshu City, Sammarinda and other places to East Wanlu have been opened one after another, and a large number of people and materials have been on the way, further deepening the overall control while sending blood to Lanfangguo.

February

On February 17, the first migrant ship from Fujian arrived in Dongwanlu with 2,671 long-awaited migrants, kicking off the large-scale migration of Lanfangguo.

Mid-February

The new conscription order was issued, and the total number of recruits for this conscription and training has reached 7,700, which has exceeded the scale of a whole division, which is the largest conscription order except for wartime.

Among them, 800 young people were recruited from Lan Fangguo, and as soon as it was released, it immediately attracted tens of thousands of local young people to apply enthusiastically, and the scene was spectacular.

At the same time, a series of personnel changes were made at the top of Queensland.

In addition to the changes in the top military personnel, He Shoutian, who was originally the mayor of Brisbane, was transformed into the prime minister of Lan Fangguo, and the original position of general control was abolished, and the old government regulations were abolished, and the political and economic system of Queensland was fully shifted.

He Shoutian is the loyal dogleg of Lord Earl, and his ability is relatively mediocre, but he is loyal, and he can rest assured that he will hand Lan Fangguo into his hands.

He Shoutian clearly knew how many catties and taels he had, and with his ability, he couldn't make any waves in Lan Fangguo, and he bowed down to the orders from the Red Castle and obeyed them all.

The mayor of Brisbane was taken over by Wu Mozhou, who was transferred from the south, and through this highly capable cadre, the Red Fort can penetrate deeper into all levels of Brisbane, and firmly grasp the second largest city in Australia comparable to the city of the Red River Valley.

The above radical measures were originally suspicious of high-level Queensland officials, fearing that they would irritate London's sensitive nerves too much.

As it turned out, all this was unfounded.

London has already kicked off a general election, and at such a time, the current Liberal cabinet, which is behind the conservative Whig Party, has no mind to deal with the Australian colonies thousands of miles away?

Not to mention the Cabinet, even Lord Gulliver, the Minister of the Colonies, had no time to take care of it, and since the beginning of the New Year, he has frequently traveled between the counties of the British Isles for his party's campaign, breaking relations with some country gentry and local nobles.

Li Fushou, Earl of Queensland, will not forget the private agreement reached by the "secret talks in the café", but will recruit new recruits and send them to major barracks for high-intensity training in preparation for a large-scale invasion of Africa.

He had his finger on the pulse of London, and at a time when the general election and the 50th anniversary of the Queen's accession to the throne were celebrated, the British side was better off with more than less, and the white conservative separatist forces in the South were pressed to the ground and rubbed hard, which is a clear proof of this.

Coupled with the evil anger he suffered in London and the Suez Canal, Downing Street always has to give himself a channel to vent, as long as he does not raise the flag to rebel, even if he does too much, it will not hurt.

As for Lan Fangguo, hehe......

Although the toss is good, the British pretend not to hear or see, and the British really don't look down on this big place.

If you want to get to the heart of the British, you have to talk about some historical origins.

From the beginning of the British colonial road at the beginning of the Age of Discovery, until the middle of the 18th century, London had little interest in land and acted mainly for profit.

Compared with the feudal empires that sprung up on horseback in Eurasia, Britain's "patience" can be described as amazing.

Actually, this is in line with the logic of the British;

Why do you have to include your own territory if you go on the road of colonization for the sake of trade, for dumping markets and obtaining raw materials cheaply, not for the sake of enslaving the local population, and even if you occupy the land for the convenience of trade?

The British rarely had heavy troops in the colonies, supervised the lives of the people and demanded naturalization, rarely spread religion and language, they only needed a simple administrative structure, a peaceful order conducive to trade, and that was enough.

In this respect, the UK is similar to the Netherlands and Belgium.

The British, however, were more open-minded, willing to build industry and a complete system of roads and railways in the colonies, establish schools for elite education, and encourage merchants to participate in trade, as they had done in Australia and India, rather than just treating the colonies as primary raw material producers.

in various old colonial powers

The fact that the colonies of Great Britain later grew to become the most developed countries was not unrelated to the enlightened policy pursued by London.

The losses of the American Revolutionary War were not large, and Britain resolutely chose to let go of the unfavorable situation of the war, and instead established state-to-state trade ties with the United States, still effectively safeguarding its own economic interests.

In the anti-French alliance, the Kingdom of Holland contributed a lot, waving the flag behind the buttocks.

Thus, after the defeat of the French Emperor Napoleon, the British Empire rewarded itself with a generous stroke of the pen and handed over the East Indies to the Dutch, and British military forces were completely withdrawn from the region.

At the beginning of the 18th ~ 19th century, the officials of the British East India Company often said that "trade is not land", which is by no means a pretense, and this policy prevented the British from falling into the mud in a certain colony.

Even India and Britain don't seem to have any intention of staying for long.

Hastings, the first Viceroy of India, said in public in 1818: "The day, and not too far off, will be upon Great Britain to return to the country which it has not inadvertently gained, according to the right principles." ”

Britain's change of policy toward the colonies began in the Victorian period, when Queen Victoria was full of sharpness and aggressiveness, and launched the Opium War against the Manchu kingdom just for the sake of opium merchants.

This is only a single incident in the nearly 50 years of Queen Victoria's reign, but it has caused irreparable damage to modern China, and the serious impact has lasted for a century.

This period

Britain's colonial policy turned in full swing, its foreign policy became more aggressive, and the British Empire's troops expanded almost all over the world, interpreting the glorious Victorian era.

In the late years of her reign, the children of Queen Victoria, who was dying of age, married into various European royal families and were honored as "the grandmothers of Europe".

Control the pulse of Buckingham Palace, and do things naturally without disadvantage.

This is the biggest harvest of Li Fushou's trip to Europe, after returning to Australia, he let go of his hands, promoted the substantial increase in the flow of immigrants, trained new soldiers, promoted the Queensland forces to completely occupy Lanfang country, promoted the development of Qixing Town in the Qingshui River Basin to accelerate the upgrading, promoted the development of northern Queensland, promoted the comprehensive economic integration in the territory, and used the large output of the Koi copper and gold mine to strengthen financial measures, ushering in a new round of great development period.

The years have flown by, and most of the year has passed

October 1885

Under the repeated urging of the British Colonial Office, the troops preparing for the expedition to Africa were finally organized, and this was a newly built division-level unit, named the "African Expeditionary Division", which was a strengthened division, and the number of troops reached 10,000 and 100, just over the agreed number of 10,000.

The "African Expeditionary Division" was led by Mo Rufeng, the former deputy commander of the Shangri-La Division, who was originally from Gusu Mansion, had been training at the grassroots level in Queensland for two years, and then returned to the Earl as a secretary for many years.

It can be said that he has rich qualifications, outstanding talents, both civil and military, and has the prototype of a commander's talent.

In addition, Colonel Koch, the deputy commander of the 2nd Kalimantan Division, was selected as his deputy, Colonel Koch, a Junker military aristocrat who had participated in the Franco-Prussian War, and was an experienced veteran who had participated in all the battles in Queensland.

After six months of study at the Huangpu Army Infantry Academy, Li Xuanzhu obtained excellent results in the evaluation of double excellence through his own efforts and made outstanding achievements in the work of the garrison area.

This transfer from the garrison to the field troops is a move by Lord Earl to further cultivate him, and if nothing else, the throne of the deputy division commander is already very close.

The Red Fort drew elite soldiers and strong generals from various field units to form this "African Expeditionary Division" with strong combat effectiveness.

From October

The officers and men of the division traveled thousands of miles to Xi'an in the Horn of Africa, accompanied by more than a dozen large cargo ships, in batches on seven large migrant ships.

Today, Xi'an has developed into a large town with a population of more than 30,000 people, with strong logistics supply capacity, and is the best choice for the "African Expeditionary Division" to adapt to the local hot climate.

According to the plan

The "African Expeditionary Division" will be stationed there for three months of training, and after adapting to the local climate, it will choose the opportunity to launch a large-scale attack.

The specific time is after 1886.

For most of the year

Australia, located in the South Pacific region, has been developing rapidly, with a 21.7% increase in the first three quarters compared to the same period last year.

During this period, the white conservative separatist forces in the South strictly ordered Downing Street not to act rashly, and honestly did not make any trouble, which won Queensland a rare time for development.

This is thanks to the "café secret talks", which is also one of Li Fushou's requirements, and the tacit understanding of "the outside must first be at home" is the basis for the cooperation between the two sides.